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The California Court of Appeal’s recent opinion in Dessins LLC v. City of Sacramento, No. C100644 (July 9, 2025) doesn’t deal with eminent domain or takings, but is about municipal fees and the way California requires these things
Florida law makes it really difficult for municipalities to adopt rent controls. State statutes and the Florida Constitution erect all sorts of substantive and procedural hurdles that must be crossed. For example, a statute requires findings that any such measures are responding to an emergency, a “grave … menace to the general public,” and places
Come at me!
(Bolick, J., dissenting)
We have a Wexis alert for “Kelo,” because that’s one of the ways we keep up on the latest developments in this area. That alert doesn’t ping all that often, so we were all excited when yesterday, we received an alert notifying us of the Arizona Supreme
Nothing much to see in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals’ opinion in Comstock v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Gloucester, No. 19-P-1163 (Aug. 3, 2020), a somewhat typical zoning dispute.
Neighbor vs neighbor, over whether permits issued by a municipality (and approved by the ZBA) to renovate and replace an existing — but dilapidated
Eminent domain lawyers know that even though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the property owner in Kelo, it acknowledged that there was a (slight?) hope in some cases where the condemnor’s stated public use or purposes is actually “pretext” to private benefit.
Pretext may be present in at least three situations: (1) when eminent
Here’s what we’re reading today:
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following (because we represent the Petitioner), an election law case about the timing of appeals in challenges to a voter’s registration.
In Hyland v. Gonzales, No. SCWC-15-0000053 (Mar. 2, 2017), the unanimous court held that the appellant timely “brought” his appeal to the Hawaii County Board
Here’s the recording of Hawaii Supreme Court oral arguments from last month in a case we first were following, and then later became involved in as counsel.
As we previewed here, the question which the court is reviewing is whether an appeal in a voter registration challenge case is timely brought when
Our colleague Rebecca Copeland has posted a preview and the briefs in an election law case we’re arguing next week in the Hawaii Supreme Court. See “Writ to Watch: Hyland v. Gonzales.” We’ve written about the case earlier here and here.
The question for the court’s review is whether an appeal in
Here’s the Ninth Circuit’s opinion in a election law case we’ve been following, Davis v. Commonwealth Election Comm’n, No. 14-16090 (Dec. 27, 2016).
The issue in the case is whether limiting voting on certain constitutional amendments in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands to a “person who is a citizen or national of the United